Don’t get caught up in the process

So I’m a teacher as well as a musician. I sometimes encounter people that get caught up in the process of doing one of those things that they forget what the goal is.

If you’re teaching, the goal is to convey information to your students so that they learn whatever process or information you’re teaching them. That’s the basic goal of teaching. Get people to understand how to do this new thing or how to understand this new idea.

Whatever you’re trying to do, don’t get caught up in the process where you forget that goal.

There are certain conventions and processes that people follow to get to a certain goal. But sometimes we can get caught up in those and end up forgetting the goal we’re trying to achieve. If you’re going through the motions and still not achieving that goal, and you’re not getting any closer to that goal, maybe try changing that process.

If you’re teaching, for example, we can often get caught up in the different routines and conventions of “how to be a good teacher” where we forget what our goal is. So try not to do that.

If you’re trying to achieve a specific goal, but there are certain things that are normally done to get there, you don’t need to follow them. Just because that’s normally how people do things doesn’t meant that’s how things should always be done.

Now always remember to look at the results and how things work because even with this it can be taken too far. Maybe you throw all the conventional advice out the window and do everything in a unique way … but then you don’t really get anywhere. Check how other people have gotten the result you want and try some of those ideas.

ISJ